Photos from One Sending Body Missions Conference

Photos from our team at the OSB Conference in Cebu, . Photos include Pastor Arnold and Rose Arquillano, Celia Munson, Ptr. Joel Aguirre, and others in discussion about setting up Bukal Life-Dagupan.

Some events coming up

‎–August 19. CARTS Honorary Service (Bukal Life is one recipient)
–August 26-28. Several members attending OSB conference in Cebu City.
–September 3 (am). CPSP-Baguio/Benguet meeting in Baguio
–September 3 (pm). Bukal BOD meeting
–September 7-10. PABATS annual conference
–September 17. AVRC-1 Special Needs Family Counseling Project
–Sept 29- Oct 1. KCPE conference in Seoul, Korea.
–October 1. Dinner for a Cause: A Serenade, Baguio.
–Oct 2-. Visit of Dr. Espineda

Hope to be having a counseling symposium in the first week of October.

More August Updates

A. Had an important staff meeting today. We are investigating our future role and priority in ministry. Should we be a training institution that provides care and guidance, or are we a care and guidance institution that provides training. Even though these sound the same, structurally there is a great difference. So we are presently investigating this.

B. Annual meeting on September 3rd, after the CPSP chapter meeting.

C. Have planned or have potential gatherings with several other groups in the next few weeks. These include One Sending Body (late August) in Cebu, KCPE (Late September) in Korea, PABATS (early September) in Davao, and CARTS (mid-August).

CPE New Batch 2011

CPE 2011 Batch 3A (Baguio) and Batch 3B (Manila) began this last weekend. The Baguio group has 3 trainees presently, while the Manila group has 4. Both groups may have 1 or 2 added soon. Combining these with Batch 2 CPE Accelerated that is on-going, we are presently having the largest number of CPE trainees at any time outside of our Normal CPE Intensive season (March-May).

Please support the trainees in prayer as they learn through ministering to those in need.

August Updates

We will be joining “One Sending Body” at the National Missions Conference in Cebu City, Philippines August 26-28. We have a partnering relationship with them, so we are looking forward to this event.

To accommodate this event, we asked CPSP-Baguio and Benguet chapters to move their Quarterly meeting to September 3. Hopefully, it will still be at Cafe Cordillera 8:30am – 11:30am. P200 for breakfast.

Dinner For A Cause… A Serenade

Our “Dinner For A Cause… A Serenade” has been moved to October 1, 6pm – 9pm. This will be held at the function hall next to Baguio Cathedral (above the Kinder Care). We are hoping to use the event to provide chaplain training (CPE) scholarships for clergy and seminarians of limited financial means. Feel free to contact us at info@bukallife.org for more information.

Late July Updates

1. Bukal Life Care & Counseling Center-Manila about to open. Had planning meeting today. The Manila branch will be led by Dr. Sim Dang-Awan and assisted by Ms. Chit Panizales. CPE-Manila begins August 6, with counseling services soon to follow.

2. Charity Dinner has been moved from September 4 to October 1st. This will allow the dinner to also be the 1 year celebration of the formal launching of Bukal Life Care & Counseling Center.

3. CPSP-Baguio chapter meeting is set for August 27 at 9am. Venue TBD.

4. CPE-Baguio Batch 3 will begin August 6 in synch with CPE-Manila.

5. Many activities are still up in the air. These include disaster response training with BBEG, Family counseling with AVRC-1, and training with Northridge School. We will update as best we can as things begin to coalesce.